What is a good h-index in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)?
Percentiles of the h-index among 20,908 ranked researchers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering), and where any h-index stands. All fields.
What is a good h-index in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)?
In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering), among 20,908 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 8. An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile and 46 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering) sits below the overall median (8 against 10).
- 50thpercentile (the median) 8 h-index
- 75thpercentile 13 h-index
- 90thpercentile 21 h-index
- 95thpercentile 28 h-index
- 99thpercentile 46 h-index
Check an h-index
Every figure is the h-index OpenAlex holds for the researcher (author snapshot of 2026-09-23), compared with the 7,710,434 researchers Science Explorer ranks. Each is counted once in a field and once in a subfield, where they have the most papers. Career length is not recorded, and an h-index grows with years of publishing. Which h-index, and who is compared.
H-index across Engineering
The median h-index in Engineering is 9. Its subfields, with Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering) marked:
| Subfield | Researchers | Median | 90th | 99th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 87,010 | 6 | 16 | 36 |
| Architecture | 1,195 | 3 | 8 | 17 |
| Automotive Engineering | 9,997 | 8 | 18 | 41 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 119,035 | 12 | 30 | 62 |
| Building and Construction | 20,108 | 8 | 21 | 45 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 83,240 | 8 | 22 | 47 |
| Computational Mechanics | 43,434 | 10 | 25 | 52 |
| Control and Systems Engineering | 53,963 | 8 | 22 | 50 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 398,464 | 10 | 26 | 56 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering) | 20,908 | 8 | 21 | 46 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 154,246 | 9 | 23 | 48 |
| Mechanics of Materials | 40,002 | 9 | 24 | 51 |
| Media Technology | 4,926 | 7 | 19 | 43 |
| Ocean Engineering | 23,915 | 8 | 19 | 42 |
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 5,818 | 7 | 20 | 44 |
More on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering: leading countries, institutions and researchers
- The most cited researchers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
- What a good h-index is in every field
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Questions about the h-index in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
- What is a good h-index in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)?
- In Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering), among 20,908 ranked researchers, the median h-index is 8. An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile and 46 at the 99th. The median across all fields is 10, so Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering) sits below the overall median (8 against 10).
- What is the average h-index in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)?
- The median h-index of 20,908 ranked researchers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering) is 8 and the mean is 10.6.
- What h-index is in the top 10% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)?
- An h-index of 21 is at the 90th percentile in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering), and 28 at the 95th.